Machine for making check-row wire



(No Model.)

B. FARIES. MAOHINB FOR MAKING CHECK ROW WIRE. N0. 516,526. Patented Mar. 13, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT FARIES, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING C HECK-ROW WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 516,526, dated March 13, 1894.

Application filed December 13, 1393. Serial No. 493,599- (No model.)

I To all whom it may concern.-

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Be it known that I, ROBERT FARIEs, of Decatur, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Check-Row Wire, ofwhich the followingis a specification.

Machines for making check rovvwire for corn planters consist of a stud or pin, around which the ends of sections of wire are interlooped, mechanism for inter-loopin g the ends of the sections, and other mechanism for coiling the end of each loop around its body wire. This invention relates entirely to the last named mechanism, and it is embodied in the details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing forming part of this specification a machine containing my improvements is shown in front elevation, the pin around which the wires are interlooped and the inter-looping mechanism being the same as that described by me in Letters Patent of .the United States No. 321,013, issued June 30, 1885. t p I The bed piece, or shears, of the machine is shown at 1, the legs M2 and the base at 3. At 4 and 4 are seen pivot shafts which are sufficiently long to insure stability, and which rock in bearings on the base plate. At 5 and 6 are seen'oscillating bars secured to shafts 4 and 4 respectively, and their swinging ends carry one the coiling Wheel 12 and the other the coiling wheel 18. Shaft 10 has bearings secured to the under side of the bed piece. Handle 11 is fixed on the outer end of the shaft, and cross block 9 is fixed, at its center, on the same shaft and in substantial alignment with the bars carrying the coiling wheels. Link 7 connects one endof the cross block with bar 5, and link 8 connects the opposite At 14 is shown a bevel wheel which, when the machine is in operation, rotates continually and supplies power to drive the coiling wheels whenever contact is made. The pin around which the ends of the sections of wire are inter-looped is shown at 15, and 16 indicates mechanism adapted to form the inter-loops. The coiling wheels 12 and 13 are of the common, or any desirable, construction, and they rotate,when in operation, in hearings in the upper ends of bars 5 and 6. As shown in the drawing they are thrown back to permit the operation of the inter-looping mechanism, and in such p0-' 5 5 sition the center of gravity of each bar, to-

gether with its load, is outside the pivot of the bar, and so their weight tends to hold them in their shown positions.' -When the time comes for the coiling wheels to act lever 11 is depressed by the hand of the operator of the machine, and the motion is imparted to the wheel-carrying bars through the shaft 10, the cross block and the links, causing them to rock on their pivots and carry the wheels simultaneously one toward the other and in contact with wheel 14;, such being their operative position, and after the coiling is effected they are returned to the shown position bya reverse motion of the lever. v

The operation of throwing the wheels to and from their work maybe quickly and eas ily performed, there being no sliding friction, the mechanism is strong and durable and it may be made at comparatively small expense. 7 5

Having thus described my invention, '1 claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patents p 1. In a machine for making check row wire, the combination of a driving wheel, a pair'of 8o coiling wheels one on each side of the driving wheel and each carried on the swinging end of an oscillating bar, and means for moving the coiling Wheels simultaneously to and from the driving wheel, substantially as set forth.

' 2. In a machine for making check row wire, the combination of a driving'wheel, a pair of coiling Wheels one on each side of the driving wheel and each carried on the swinging end of an oscillating bar, and a rock shaft between the bars connected from one side with one bar and from the opposite side with the other bar, substantially as set forth.

3.- In a machine for making check row wire, the combination of oscillating bars carrying coiling wheels, a shaft between the bars, such shaft having a lever and a cross block, and links connecting the ends of the cross block with the oscillating bars, substantially as set I00 forth- 1 In testimony whereof Isign my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBT. FARIES.-

Witnesses: I

CHAs. E. DAWsoN, .L. P. GRAHAM. 

